Federal Estate Tax Update

Finally … some clarity! Federal Estate Tax planning has been more turbulent the past twenty years than sailing a ship through a hurricane.  Ok, that’s an exaggeration.  Nevertheless, we have clarity now.  As a result of the OBBB Act (One Big Beautiful Bill) signed...

New 2024 Rules on Descriptive and Generic Terms

New 2024 Rules on Descriptive and Generic Terms: Safeguarding Consumers and Upholding Trademark Integrity In 2024, new regulations were introduced to address the registration and use of descriptive or generic terms in trademarks, reflecting a growing need to protect...

Is my New York dispensary application on hold?

Dispensary license applicants continue to be frustrated by slow processing of the 2023 applications by the New York Office of Cannabis Management (“OCM”). It remains unclear when a new application window will be opened for new applications and whether the OCM will...

Should New York Have a Cap on the Number of Dispensaries?

New York’s Cannabis Advisory Board issued a controversial and non-binding suggestion to the Cannabis Control Board to impose a “temporary” limit of 1,600 marijuana dispensary licenses issued by the state. They insist it is not a permanent license cap, rather, just a...